In our virtual center, machines that get rebooted are coming back up and not connecting to the network with their static IP's. Instead, they are showing 169 addresses. Another reboot seems to fix the issue.

These are a mix of Server 2008 r2 and Server 2012 r2 vm's, VM tools is up to date.

This is happening regardless of which of the 3 hosts they are on.. The hosts are DL380p G8's.

I've never seen or heard of anything like this before. Anyone out there seen this or have a fix? The one at

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Update to ESXi 5.5 and the problem may well vanish. ESXi 5.1 did the same thing to us for a short time, but the issue seemed to resolve itself when we updated.

EDIT: It seemed to happen more to us when we had many VMs on one host. If updating doesn't fix it, you may have been infected with malware of some kind. I've seen this countless times on all Windows versions.